21st Century Learning Expo (21CLExpo)

Each year at the Motivation and Engagement conference for Eagle County Schools, we include a showcase of our own teachers who lead their colleagues through discovery sessions of new tools and ideas for the classroom. This set of sessions are aligned with the district 21st Century Skill Standards of Critical Thinking & Reasoning, Collaboration, Invention, Self-Direction, Information Literacy, and Globalness. In 2009, we held the first of what will hopefully be a long tradition for Eagle County Schools and the overwhelming response by teachers was, "We want more!". Here are the list of presenters and links to their resources:

Grades 9-12
k-8
Geoff Grimmer: Invention with Google Apps
Lisa Derse/Zach Fink: Critical Thinking with Promethean ActivExpressions
Barb Romersheuser, Stephen Miller, Penny Lofaro, Becky Pitman: Information Literacy Smackdown
Kathy Ferrel: Information Literacy with Primary Sources
Mary Ann Stavney: Globalness through Activism and technology
Matt Abramowitz:
Communication and Collaboration with VoiceThread in the k-8 classroom
Sara Snowwhite/Sarah Kleiforth: Collaboration using Google Docs and Ning
Stephanie Gallegos/Noel Falk: Using photo essays and blogs to achieve higher order thinking and sound reasoning.
Troy Dudley: Self Direction through Blogging
Marcie Gass/Pat Hollandsworth: Self-Direction with iPod Touches
Miles McGeehan: Low Tech and High Tech: Routines in Critical Thinking
David Russell: Invention using Google Apps and other web 2.0 tools





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